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Charles Platt

Charles Platt President, EMEA at SAP Fioneer

Neither a Producer nor a Distributor be... in your IT Philosophy

Economics can teach us a few lessons in our approach to technology set-up. From an economic perspective there is a lot of risk in being a producer. It requires commitment to fixed infrastructure — buying it, setting it up and maintaining it — in order to develop the assets to sell. Product diversity requires further expenditure on fixed infrastruct...

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Lu Zurawski

Lu Zurawski founder, iKnowMe at Lu Zurawski

Do ATMs dream of electric money?

Its nearly half a century since the famous American science fiction writer, Philip K. Dick wrote the novel, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", which went on to become the Ridley Scott movie, Blade Runner. (Spoiler alert if you have not seen it). Today also marks the 50th anniversary of the world’s first cash-dispensing ATM (Automate...

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Artificial Intelligence: The Next Step in Financial Crime Compliance Evolution

Financial Services compliance departments are constantly turning to technology to find efficiencies and satisfy increasingly tough regulatory examinations. It started with simple robotics, which can provide great operational efficiencies and help standardize processes. Never ones to rest on their laurels, compliance departments have begun looking ...

/regulation Financial Services Regulation

Prateek Saxena

Prateek Saxena Managing Director at Appinventiv

Entrepreneurs- Here’s the Best Method to Build Strong Connections!

When you ask the business tycoons their success secret- it’s for sure that the answer would be connections! Whether you talk about potential business alliances, marketing, sales, supply chain management or anything- connections is the core of business growth. The connections open new doors to business, informs about the upcoming opportunities and ...

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Chris Brown

Chris Brown CTO at Trusek

The current payment networks are no longer fit for purpose.

“The current payment networks available to the financial institutions around the world are no longer fit for purpose.” I think that this is a statement that has been generally agreed by all those involved but let’s go through them just to be clear: As discussed in a previous blog, the card networks are expensive to join, expensive to transact on,...

/security /payments Innovation in Financial Services

Enrico Camerinelli

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Supply Chain Collaboration: Why Banks Should Care

As soon as a bank places the corporate customer at the center of its delivery strategy, that bank has to follow the peculiar business dynamics that influence and shape the corporate client’s business decisions. Almost any business decision has an impact on the supply chain, and in a globalized world, supply chain collaboration is one of the most h...

Innovation in Financial Services

Nick Weisfeld

Nick Weisfeld Head of Data Strategy at GFT

Cloud database technology can no longer be ignored in financial services

Recent developments in cloud based data technology points to the beginning of a wider step change in the delivery of data technology within financial services, including two recent announcements made at the 2017 Google Next event in London. The first was from David Knott, Chief Architect at HSBC who announced HSBC’s ‘cloud first’ strategy for the b...

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How SFTR compliance creates a new vantage point for firms

With the deadline for the Securities Finance Transaction Regulation (SFTR) advancing rapidly (end of 2018), firms need to ensure they have a sustainable and low cost plan for how they will tackle the requirements laid out by the regulation. Beyond, simply pulling data from disparate sources together into a single report, astute organisations will ...

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Carlo R.W. De Meijer

Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA

The EU and blockchain: taking the lead?

Introduction Long time the European Union has taken a positive, but wait-and-see attitude towards blockchain and distributed ledger technology. Both related to use cases and regulatory intervention. But that is changing rapidly. Last week the European Commission announced the launch of its #Blockchain4EU Project enlarging their scope to more than ...

Tom Hay

Tom Hay Principal Consultant at Payment Systems Europe

The ERPB Highlights the Holes in PSD2

A year ago, the European Retail Payments Board (ERPB) flagged that “In practice, PSD2 and the EBA RTS will not cover all aspects that are relevant for the development of an integrated market of Payment Initiation Services (PIS) in the EU”. In November 2016, they set up a Working Group on Payment Initiation Services “to identify conditions for the ...

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